These days AOL seems to put all its focus on spinning off from Time Warner Inc. Though these guys are reviewing their assets to divest or sell, it’s quite evident that they will keep their social networking site Bebo, as company’s CEO Tim Armstrong has confirmed.
AOL boss Tim Armstrong has told Reuters that their social networking site is still highly valuable for them, and they are looking ahead for further improvement in it. The social networking site is going to move to AOL’s Ventures unit for further development, and this very moved has caused some speculation about the selling of the site which is lagging behind in popularity from some other social networking sites like twitter and Facebook.
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MIT researchers have developed a new kind of fabric that will act like a camera. The researchers have used light-sensitive mesh fibers in that fabric that will serve like a rudimentary camera when used together. The fibers which have been used in that fabric are able to detect two light frequencies. These fibers produce signals and when they are processed and amplified with the help of a computer, they reproduce a similar image close to the mesh.
Yoel Fink, who is an associate professor at materials science, says with his team that: “ It’s happening first time that someone is demonstrating that a fabric or to be more exact a single fibers plane can gather images in the same way as a camera without using any lens.”
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US District Judge George Wu acquitted a Missouri mother Lori Drew for her role in a MySpace hoax on Thursday. This MySpace hoax became the cause of a 13-year-old girl’s suicide in Lori’s neighbor.
George Wu said that Lori Drew was being acquitted for wrong counts of accessing computers without authority, but at the same time the ruling would be tentative as long as something it is not issued by him in written form.
Lori didn’t show any reaction to that decision. It was back in November when she was convicted and according to the judge if she is found guilty of doing this, everyone who violates the terms of the social networking site to be reckoned as a guilty of an offense and this is the thing which is quite unconstitutional and also needed to be addressed through new legislation in this connection.
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Twitter Search for Flickr photographs
A new feature, which will allow users to post Flicker photos on their Twitter accounts, has just been unleashed by Yahoo.
You need to enable Flicker as an approved application for this new Twitter2Flicker feature with which you can tweet under your username.
After doing this, you have to click on the link above the photo in which you are given an option to tweet it. This tweet appears in the shortened URL of flic.kr.
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Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom who were behind the creation of Skype, Kazaa as well as Joost, now have decided to dump their third major creation Joost that is a consumer-video service.
According to the service, now they will focus on developing white label video platforms for video aggregators, broadcasters and satellite providers.
This decision appears as a giving up of the service in front of competitors like Hulu and YouTube.
Previously, Joost has given some indications that it was getting ready to give up. Two months back, Sony Pictures pulled its content off the service after the news that the company was shopping itself for different cable providers that also included Time Warner Cable.
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